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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 19, 2026

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A steam train, antique train, nostalgia, lighthouse

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  7. today's leftovers
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  8. Distributions and Operating Systems: OSNews, BSD, and More
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  9. Education and Sharing Leftovers
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  10. Richard Stallman's Next Talk and SFC, Which Tries to Cancel Him, on Copyleft
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  14. Programming Leftovers
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  15. New Release of EasyOS and Further Work
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  16. today's howtos
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  18. Open Hardware/Modding: Bambu Lab Versus AGPL, ESP32, and More
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  20. Android Leftovers
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  21. This open-source chip design could do for hardware what Linux did for software
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    1026 /n/2026/05/12/Programming_Leftovers.shtml
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